The Second Mother movie review: cleaning house
Sharply observant and always surprising; mixes dry humor, aching drama, and stinging social commentary in its clashes between classes and generations.
Year: 2015
London photos: open-air Shard
The uppermost viewing platform at The Shard is open to the air.
Where Are the Women? The Visit
The two adult women here are defined solely as mothers, but at least there is a teenaged female coprotagonist who is not defined by her gender.
The Visit movie review: grandma’s house (of horrors?)
Over the river and through the woods to yet another banal, anticlimactic attempt at storytelling from M. Night Shyamalan. And this time, it’s found-footage.
open thread: Daredevil
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Where Are the Women? Ricki and the Flash
The female protagonist is a mother, a girlfriend, and an ex-wife, but her life is not defined by her relationships to men and children.
Ricki and the Flash movie review: rocking (down and) out
There’s some good stuff here, like the prickly relationships between women at odds with one another, but too much feels too contrived to fully satisfy.
London photo: top of the Shard (at night)
Another view from the top of The Shard.
today is the 18th anniversary of the launch of Flick Filosopher
Happy birthday to me… well, to my site.
London photos: sunset from the top of the Shard
Earlier this evening from the the viewing platform at the top of The Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe.
